· Private foundation
The Zahava & Moshael J Straus Family Fo
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $1,214,286 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD | $50,000 |
| BERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC | $36,000 |
| SEFARIA | $36,000 |
| THE MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH | $15,000 |
| PROJECT EZRAH NEEDS INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +39%
- MSMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD6× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +23%
- JBJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC5× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +244%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $233k
BARNARD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +60%- EHEAST HILL SYNAGOGUE CHESED FUNDone grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALEPH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SEFARIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH ↗
- Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
- Who funds Project Ezrah Needs Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · David & Esther Muschel Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · H&H Charitable Foundation · The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc · Kolatch Family Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · Fjc · The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zahava & Moshael J Straus Family Fo funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zahava & Moshael J Straus Family Fo. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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